Three held in Pakistan with pirated editions of Jaswant’s book

September 18th, 2009 LAHORE - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah has sent the Pakistani book piracy nexus working overtime, but it has also landed people in police custody. Pakistani security agencies have arrested three people for selling pirated editions of the book 'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence,' following a countrywide crackdown on publishers and sellers of counterfeit editions of the controversial yet popular book.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - American writer Dan Brown's new book 'The Lost Symbol' is said to have broken sales record in the first 36 hours of its release in the UK, after it sold more copies than any other adult hardback novel. The book, which went on sale on September 15, has sold more than 300,000 copies in the UK.

September 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Indian government has allowed expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh to visit Pakistan Sep 26 to promote his book Jinnah: India, Partition and Independence, a media report said. He will arrive in Karachi Sep 26, before heading to the Pakistani capital Sep 27 to attend a launching ceremony of the book at the Islamabad Press Club.

September 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book, Jinnah: India, Partition-Independence, which has created a furore in India, is selling like hot cakes in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The twin-city booksellers had imported more than 3,000 copies on Saturday and sold them out by Monday morning.

August 29th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Punjab province's Crime Investigation Department (CID) has released its 12th 'Red Book' containing names of most wanted high profile terrorists. The book, which also includes the names of those involved in sectarian violence, mentions a combined head money of 54 million rupees announced by the Punjab government for the militants.

August 28th, 2009 LAHORE - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book, Jinnah: India, Partition-Independence, which has created a furor in India, has received an overwhelming response in Pakistan. A famous book store in Lahore sold 100 copies of the book in a single day (last Wednesday) which indicates how eager the Pakistanis are to know the reason what prompted the BJP to expel the former Foreign Minister and end his 30 year long association with the party.

August 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Senator Ted Kennedy's autobiography, "True Compass," will hit shelves next month, but the talking point is the publisher, who has announced a 1,000 price tag for a limited number of pre-signed books. According to Politico, standard editions of "True Compass" will sell for 35 dollars and will hit stores on September 14.

August 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Jaswant Singh's book that got him expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now creating fissures in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), with many key allies opposing the idea of banning the book. BJP-ruled Gujarat has already banned the book "Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence", which says that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been demonised in India and holds country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and home minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel also responsible for the partition.

August 21st, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Congress party in Gujarat Friday said it plans a campaign against expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh and his views on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's alleged role in India's partition in his controversial book "Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence". The Gujarat Congress plans a series of awareness campaigns against the former external affairs minister for what it called doubting the patriotism of Patel, a great freedom movement leader, a Gujarat Congress statement said here Friday.

August 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Expressing solidarity with expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has criticized the BJP for throwing Singh out of the party for writing a book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah, saying if anybody would have written a book on Jawaharlal Nehru in Pakistan, it would have not created such a furor. Interacting with media persons here, PML-N Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq said Singh's expulsion has exposed the 'narrow-mindedness' of BJP towards Muslim leaders.

August 19th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat government late Wednesday decided to ban expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on partition for his criticism of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. "Making any references to his (Patel's) role during those critical times without any evidence is an insult to the people of Gujarat, which we will not take lying down," state government spokesman and Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas told the NDTV news channel.

August 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on Pakistan's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah was consigned to flames by Uttar Pradesh Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Pramod Tiwari here Tuesday afternoon. A large number of Congressmen cheered him as he made a bonfire of the book, "Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence", which has already sparked off a debate in the corridors of power in New Delhi.

August 6th, 2009 BERLIN - Leaders of the Jewish community in Germany have called for a republication of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (My Struggle), which would be accompanied by a critical introduction and footnotes challenging Hitler's assertions. Currently, the German state of Bavaria has a 70-year exclusive copyright on publishing the book, which is due to expire at the end of 2015, leading to fears of a free-for-all among unscrupulous publishers, The Telegraph reported.

June 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - A book on the life of Mahatma Gandhi "Bahuroopi Gandhi" will be published in Sindhi language in Pakistan next month, according to the Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal (BSM). The book, first published in India in 1948, is authored by Anu Bandopadhyaya and is translated into Sindhi by litterateur Zaffar Junejo, a BSM statement here said Wednesday.

May 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has been registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest militarized territorial dispute in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records used the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) world fact book to name the Kashmir issue, the longest dispute between two countries, The Daily Times reports.